Established in 1946, The Australian National University is one of the world’s most highly regarded universities, consistently ranked number 1 in Australia and 16th in the world (Times Higher Education Supplement, 2008).

As one of the greatest research-intensive institutions and Australia’s only member of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU, ANU enjoys a high ratio of academic staff to students, world-class facilities and an educational culture built on an all-pervading sense of discovery.

The University is home to 14,365 students, including 3,379 international students from more than 100 different countries, and consists of seven Colleges, namely:

• ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
• ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
• ANU College of Business and Economics
• ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science
• ANU College of Law
• ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment
• ANU College of Physical Sciences

The University offers a wide range of graduate awards, including graduate certificates, graduate diplomas, master degrees by research and/or coursework, and PhD degrees.

Rankings and Ratings:

• Ranked No.1 in Australia and 16th in the world by The Times Higher Education Supplement (2008). 

• Ranked No.1 in Australia and 59th in the world by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Academic Ranking of World Universities (2008)

• Ranked No.1 in Australia, and 38th in the world by Newsweek International (August 2006).

• An independent quality review of the University found it ranked among the world’s best research universities, with 77 per cent of external assessors ranking ANU as one of the top 50 universities in their field in the world — including 44 per cent who rated ANU in the world’s top 25 universities.

• The Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education’s Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked ANU ahead of every other university in the Southern Hemisphere.
  

• The University's research record includes four Nobel Prize recipients, the Japan Prize, four Australia Prizes and the 2000 'Albert Einstein' World Award of Science.
  

• ISIHighlyCited, a ranking of researchers who have made fundamental contributions to their disciplines in the last 20 years, identified 21 ANU researchers among the 50 Australians at the top of their field.

• In 2003, the University was awarded the Silver Greenhouse Challenge Award at the annual Australian Engineering Excellence Awards, placing it second among 800 signatories.